Independent game developer Spooky Squid Games announced through a new trailer today that They Bleed Pixels has moved its development from Xbox Live Indie Games to Steam and will be announcing a release date soon.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/rqtw04XXzhg

Originally planned for release last summer, the Spooky Squid team have spent an extra year polishing, creating additional levels and adding Steamworks features including leaderboards, achievements and cloud saving. Also shown in the trailer for the first time is a small preview of the game’s detailed motion comic cutscenes. Through these wordless pixel art sequences They Bleed Pixels’ story of a young girl haunted by otherworldly nightmares is revealed.

“We’re extremely happy to be bringing They Bleed Pixels to Steam. Throughout development other game developers and players have told us that the game really deserves to reach a larger audience and the move to PC and Steam will do just that.” says Miguel Sternberg, Creative Director at Spooky Squid Games. “For those waiting for the release date we’re very close to being able to announce it. We’re just finishing up sound and squashing a few pesky bugs. It’s been a busy year and I think players will really appreciate the additional content and polish.”

About They Bleed Pixels PC Steam
www.theybleedpixels.com
Featuring a distinct visual style that blends pixel art with paper and ink textures, They Bleed Pixels is a singular mix of intense platforming and fierce beat-em-up action. It tells the story of a young girl haunted by a mysterious book and her violent Lovecraftian nightmares. The game features a surprisingly robust one button combat system and a mid-level save system that requires players to pull off stylish kills in order to earn and place checkpoints.

About Spooky Squid Games:
Spooky Squid Games was founded in late 2008 by pixel artist and game designer Miguel Sternberg. He was joined soon by Andrij Pilkiw who rounded out the team with his programming prowess and ability to curse in Ukrainian.

Since forming they have released several free games including Night of the Cephalopods, a game critically praised for its groundbreaking interactive narrative technique and listed as one of indiegames.com’s Best Freeware Arcade Games of 2008.

For more information on Spooky Squid Games, visit the company’s website (http://www.spookysquid.com/) or Twitter (http://twitter.com/spookysquid).

About Miguel Sternberg:
A veteran of Toronto’s indie game scene, Miguel is a former co-founder of Capybara Games and helps run The Hand Eye Society, an indie game arts and culture group. His pixel art has graced the back cover of Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together, the movie Crank, the web game Legends of Zork, as well as countless unplayable cellphone games based on major movie franchises. He most recently organized the Comics vs Games art show as part of TIFFnexus.